Qubes partial boot

[JwS]

This thread got me on a path forward.

For backing up data: How to connect a USB drive directly to dom0

I know one should NEVER do this, for security reasons, but consider this: I want to back up massive amounts data from many, many qubes directly to a USB drive mounted on dom0 (without having to manually copy things between various qubes). And in my case, the machine is a) offline, the b) the USB drive is brand-new, and c) the OS will be completely reinstalled after the backup. I can absolutely accept the remaining security risk in this case. So after having physically connected the USB drive t…

I’m copying the /home dirs and will reinstall Qubes from scratch.